
This series grapples intelligently with this myth, both confirming it and questioning it at the same time. The Oz small country town, like its American counterpart, has achieved mythical status in literature and cinema as a universe all its own. If you thought the magic land of Oz was all glorious sunny beaches and endless rolling plains, think again. Please finish it here, don't bring it back for another season. It's a beautiful and wise limited series that's touchingly awesome as it is. All the cast did a wonderful job, especially Ray and the young Sam. In times, her haggard, distraught and frightened looks conveyed much emotions than a hundred words. The one full of underlying emotions, vivacity, vitality together with her amazing smile. I got to see part of her old acting self that I missed so much. I already knew that Phoebe Tonkin was a very good actress here, I understood that she is an outstanding actress. It's a story about hope, greed and disappointment, beautifully unfolded and played simply and awesomely by the cast. Bloom is a series for everybody to think about their later years if they are young, to use that youth to live a good, full and compassionate life and if they are already of age, to feel realistically the nostalgia of their youth again and ponder upon their mistakes and good deeds once more.
